Negative Space: ascii art
- Astounding ASCII Art
- ASCII art images created using the asciiArt script of 42 Astounding Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh.
- Bats
- They’re bats. One could be batman’s signal, the other is a flying rat.
- Bill the Cat
- Two versions of Bill from Bloom County.
- Commemorate Patriot Day with Betsy Ross
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The Declaration of Independence overlaid on the Betsy Ross flag.
- Create your own ASCII art palettes with densitySort
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You can create your own ASCII art palettes from special (fixed pitch) fonts and specific collections of characters, using the densitySort script here.
- Dancing Bears
- You only recognize that they’re bears if you’re familiar with the bumper sticker. They look a little like Rock’em Robots.
- Have a Merry Scripting Christmas with Persistence of Vision
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The ASCII Merry Christmas from Astounding Scripts was taken from a scene I created in Persistence of Vision. It’s a very simple scene that highlights many of the advantages of using POV to create images.
- Hello World in Amber
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A hello world too retro even for me.
- Random colors in your ASCII art
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One of the great things about writing your own scripts is that when you need new functionality, you can add it. I needed random colors in a single-character ASCII art image. It was easy to add to the asciiArt script. Here’s how.
- Selected ASCII art
- Remember when pixels didn’t even exist? We had to use letters as pixels. And we loved it!
- Sesame Street and the Simpsons
- It’s an ASCII family photo. Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert, and Ernie; and the Bart, Lisa, Marge, Homer, and whoever that little kid is.
- The seventies like a shooting star
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When creating ASCII art with the asciiArt script, you can maintain the color of an overlay even in areas where the photo is white, by using a block character instead of a space for the final character in the palette.
- A thousand points of color: give your photos a pointillist turn
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I had far too much fun with that kleenex mask in the book. Here’s a more serious look at creating pointellated images using the asciiArt script in 42 Astounding Scripts.
- Winnie ther Pooh
- “I have tried to smoothen up the ‘quickie reduction’ version of the Winnie the Pooh picture. My girlfriend finished the work I started. You’ll find the result below.”
